At least eight people were wounded in a hammer attack at a university in Tokyo on Friday, with the assailant a woman in her ...

Hammer attack at Tokyo university injures eight, student arrested, sparking concerns over rare violent crime in Japan.

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...

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Her book "Farewell to Manzanar," which was based on her family's experience at the World War II relocation camp, was widely ...

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Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Monster) is one of cinema’s great humanists, and he expresses intense ...

To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...

Genetics, lifestyle, and luck are all thought to contribute to longevity, but we don't know for sure. Centenarians attribute ...

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